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House Amendment 1927

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend the amendment, H-1897, to Senate File 514, as
  1  2 amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as
  1  3 follows:
  1  4    #1.  Page 5, by inserting after line 10, the
  1  5 following:
  1  6    "Sec.    .  Section 331.323, subsection 2,
  1  7 paragraph g, Code 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  1  8    g.  Establish the number of deputies, assistants,
  1  9 and clerks for the offices of assessor, auditor,
  1 10 treasurer, recorder, sheriff, and county attorney."
  1 11    #2.  Page 12, line 49, by inserting after the
  1 12 figure "2001." the following:  "Amounts levied for
  1 13 each fiscal year under the authority of section 441.16
  1 14 shall be added to the base year calculation for
  1 15 general county services."
  1 16    #3.  Page 18, by inserting after line 23, the
  1 17 following:
  1 18    "Sec.    .  Section 331.559, subsection 18, Code
  1 19 2001, is amended by striking the subsection."
  1 20    #4.  Page 22, by inserting after line 28, the
  1 21 following:
  1 22    "Amounts levied for each fiscal year under the
  1 23 authority of section 441.16 shall be added to the base
  1 24 year calculation."
  1 25    #5.  Page 25, by inserting after line 27, the
  1 26 following:
  1 27    "Sec.    .  Section 441.3, Code 2001, is amended to
  1 28 read as follows:
  1 29    441.3  EXAMINING BOARD.
  1 30    At a regular meeting of the conference board each
  1 31 voting unit of the conference board shall appoint one
  1 32 person who is a resident of the assessor jurisdiction
  1 33 to serve as a member of an examining board to hold an
  1 34 examination for the positions of assessor or deputy
  1 35 assessor.  This examining board shall organize as soon
  1 36 as possible after its appointment with a chairperson
  1 37 and secretary.  All its necessary expenditures shall
  1 38 be paid as provided from the budget of the assessor.
  1 39 Members of the board shall serve without compensation.
  1 40 The terms of each shall be for six years.
  1 41    Sec.    .  Section 441.5, unnumbered paragraph 5,
  1 42 Code 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  1 43    Any person possessing temporary certification who
  1 44 receives a provisional appointment as assessor shall,
  1 45 during the person's first eighteen months in office,
  1 46 be required to complete a course of study prescribed
  1 47 and administered by the director of revenue and
  1 48 finance.  Upon the successful completion of this
  1 49 course of study, the assessor shall be granted regular
  1 50 certification and shall be eligible to remain in
  2  1 office for the balance of the assessor's six-year
  2  2 term.  All expenses incurred in obtaining regular
  2  3 certification shall be defrayed by the assessment
  2  4 expense fund paid from the budget of the assessor.
  2  5    Sec.    .  Section 441.7, Code 2001, is amended to
  2  6 read as follows:
  2  7    441.7  SPECIAL EXAMINATION.
  2  8    If the conference board fails to appoint an
  2  9 assessor from the list of individuals on the register,
  2 10 the conference board shall request permission from the
  2 11 director of revenue and finance to hold a special
  2 12 examination in the particular city or county in which
  2 13 the vacancy has occurred.  Permission may be granted
  2 14 by the director of revenue and finance after
  2 15 consideration of factors such as the availability of
  2 16 candidates in that particular city or county.  The
  2 17 director of revenue and finance shall conduct no more
  2 18 than one special examination for each vacancy in an
  2 19 assessing jurisdiction.  The examination shall be
  2 20 conducted by the director of revenue and finance as
  2 21 provided in section 441.5, except as otherwise
  2 22 provided in this section.  The examining board shall
  2 23 give notice of holding the examination for assessor by
  2 24 posting a written notice in a conspicuous place in the
  2 25 county courthouse in the case of county assessors or
  2 26 in the city hall in the case of city assessors,
  2 27 stating that at a specified date, an examination for
  2 28 the position of assessor will be held at a specified
  2 29 place.  Similar notice shall be given at the same time
  2 30 by one publication of the notice in three newspapers
  2 31 of general circulation in the case of a county
  2 32 assessor, or in case there are not three such
  2 33 newspapers in a county, then in newspapers which are
  2 34 available, or in one newspaper of general circulation
  2 35 in the city in the case of city assessor.  The
  2 36 conference board of the city or county in which a
  2 37 special examination is held shall reimburse the
  2 38 department of revenue and finance for all expenses
  2 39 incurred in the administration of the examination, to
  2 40 be paid for by out of the budget of the respective
  2 41 city or county assessment expense fund assessor.
  2 42 Following the administration of this special
  2 43 examination, the director of revenue and finance shall
  2 44 certify to the examining board a new list of
  2 45 candidates eligible to be appointed as assessor and
  2 46 the examining board and conference board shall proceed
  2 47 in accordance with the provisions of section 441.6.
  2 48    Sec.    .  Section 441.8, unnumbered paragraph 8,
  2 49 Code 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  2 50    Each conference board The board of supervisors, or
  3  1 city council, as applicable, shall include in the
  3  2 budget for the operation of the assessor's office
  3  3 funds sufficient to enable the assessor and any deputy
  3  4 assessor to obtain certification as provided in this
  3  5 section.  The conference board shall also allow the
  3  6 assessor and any deputy assessor sufficient time off
  3  7 from their regular duties to obtain certification.
  3  8 The director of revenue and finance shall adopt rules
  3  9 pursuant to chapter 17A to implement and administer
  3 10 this section.
  3 11    Sec.    .  Section 441.15, Code 2001, is amended to
  3 12 read as follows:
  3 13    441.15  BOND.
  3 14    Assessors and deputy assessors shall be required to
  3 15 furnish bond for the performance of their duties in
  3 16 such amount as the conference board may require and
  3 17 the cost thereof of the bond shall be provided for in
  3 18 the budget of the assessor and paid out of the
  3 19 assessment expense fund.
  3 20    Sec.    .  Section 441.16, Code 2001, is amended by
  3 21 striking the section and inserting in lieu thereof the
  3 22 following:
  3 23    441.16  BUDGET.
  3 24    All expenditures under this chapter shall be paid
  3 25 as provided in this section.
  3 26    Not later than January 1 of each year the assessor,
  3 27 the examining board, and the board of review, shall
  3 28 each prepare a proposed budget of all expenses for the
  3 29 ensuing fiscal year.  The assessor shall include in
  3 30 the proposed budget the probable expenses for
  3 31 defending assessment appeals.  The budgets shall be
  3 32 combined by the assessor and copies of the budget
  3 33 forthwith filed by the assessor in triplicate with the
  3 34 chairperson of the board of supervisors or city
  3 35 council, as applicable.
  3 36    Such combined budgets shall contain an itemized
  3 37 list of the proposed salaries of the assessor and each
  3 38 deputy, the amount required for field personnel and
  3 39 other personnel, their number and their compensation;
  3 40 the estimated amount needed for expenses, printing,
  3 41 mileage and other expenses necessary to operate the
  3 42 assessor's office, the estimated expenses of the
  3 43 examining board and the salaries and expenses of the
  3 44 local board of review.
  3 45    For purposes of promoting operational efficiency,
  3 46 the assessor shall have authority to transfer funds
  3 47 budgeted for specific items for the operation of the
  3 48 assessor's office from one unexpended balance to
  3 49 another; such transfer shall not be made so as to
  3 50 increase the total amount budgeted for the operation
  4  1 of the office of assessor, and no funds shall be used
  4  2 to increase the salary of the assessor or the salaries
  4  3 of permanent deputy assessors.  The assessor shall
  4  4 issue requisitions for the examining board and for the
  4  5 board of review on order of the chairperson of each
  4  6 board and for costs and expenses incident to
  4  7 assessment appeals, only on order of the city legal
  4  8 department, in the case of cities and of the county
  4  9 attorney in the case of counties.
  4 10    Sec.    .  Section 441.17, subsection 5, unnumbered
  4 11 paragraph 2, Code 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  4 12    In all cases where the court finds that the
  4 13 taxpayer has not listed the taxpayer's property, as
  4 14 provided by law, and in all hearings where the court
  4 15 decides a matter against the taxpayer, the costs shall
  4 16 be paid by the taxpayer, otherwise they shall be paid
  4 17 out of the assessment expense fund from the budget of
  4 18 the assessor.  The fees and mileage to be paid
  4 19 witnesses shall be the same as prescribed by law in
  4 20 proceedings in the district courts of this state in
  4 21 civil cases.  Where the costs are taxed to the
  4 22 taxpayer they shall be added to the taxes assessed
  4 23 against said taxpayer and the taxpayer's property and
  4 24 shall be collected in the same manner as are other
  4 25 taxes.
  4 26    Sec.    .  Section 441.50, Code 2001, is amended to
  4 27 read as follows:
  4 28    441.50  APPRAISERS EMPLOYED.
  4 29    The conference board of supervisors or city council
  4 30 shall have power to employ appraisers or other
  4 31 technical or expert help to assist in the valuation of
  4 32 property, the cost thereof to be paid in the same
  4 33 manner as other expenses of the assessor's office.
  4 34 The conference board of supervisors or city council
  4 35 may certify for levy annually an amount not to exceed
  4 36 forty and one-half cents per thousand dollars of
  4 37 assessed value of taxable property for the purpose of
  4 38 establishing a special appraiser's fund, to be used
  4 39 only for such purposes.  From time to time the
  4 40 conference board may direct the transfer of any
  4 41 unexpended balance in the special appraiser's fund to
  4 42 the assessment expense fund."
  4 43    #6.  By renumbering as necessary.  
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  4 46                               
  4 47 VAN ENGELENHOVEN of Mahaska
  4 48 
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  4 50                               
  5  1 HOUSER of Pottawattamie
  5  2 SF 514.515 79
  5  3 sc/pj
     

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